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A person with poor judgment or little intelligence. | A jester; a person whose role was to entertain a sovereign and the court (or lower personages). | A stock character typified by unintelligence, naïveté or lucklessness, usually as a form of comic relief; often used as a source of insight or pathos for the audience, as such characters are generally less bound by social expectations.
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Repeating it in Los Angeles on April Fool’s weekend should not fool anyone as it will probably not be an upset anymore.
As both former US president Abraham Lincoln and reggae great Bob Marley have made clear "you can fool some people sometimes, but you can't fool all the people all the time".
My first thought was, no fool like an old fool.
This may have happened on April Fool’s Day but it wasn’t exactly April Fool’s Day–meaning it was no joke.
You can fool everyone on this earth but you can never fool the Creator.
Evidently, it’s not too difficult to fool a fool.
I might fool the neighbors or the priest or even the pope, but I can’t fool god.
Baptiste's Pierrot was both a fool and no fool; he was Cassandre's valet but no one's servant.
He instructed the graduating class that "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool.
Moore recalled, "All of a sudden, Elvis just started singing this song, jumping around and acting the fool, and then Bill picked up his bass, and he started acting the fool, too, and I started playing with them.
The Eye in the Pyramid, pages 83–84 Hagbard Celine claims towards the climax that the entire story is a computer-generated synthesis of random conspiracies: "I can fool the rest of you, but I can't fool the reader.
The title of the novel (Le Plaidoyer d'un Fou) has also been translated as The Confession of a Fool, A Madman's Defence and A Fool's Apology.
The valley is gone, and the gods with it; and now, every fool in Buxton can be at Bakewell in half-an-hour, and every fool in Bakewell at Buxton.
Aharon, who pursued peace, loved people and always judged them kindly, and gave them the benefit of the doubt, felt a fool.
Alexandria Obviously Communist is living proof of the truth of the old adage that it’s better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
Although sparing Ashi seemed like a fool's errand at the time, it later provided the key Jack needed to finally return home.
And while the clip on social media may have failed to fool most users this time, the clip shows how easy it now is for people to generate hateful and disinformation-filled “deepfake” videos that could do real-world harm.
April Fool’s Day or All Fools’ Day is celebrated each year on April 1. This is a time for harmless practical jokes or hoaxes.
Are Fool Us and Masters of Illusion still premiering this Friday or are they being delayed due to thus?
Asked whether he will look to stamp his own mark on the team for the game against Orient this weekend, Short responded: “I don’t think I should change something that’s working, I’d be a fool to do that.